Never Understood Quotes
167 quotes by 157 authors
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Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.
— Alanis Morissette
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I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with…
— Karl Pilkington
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People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing…
— Daniel Radcliffe
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I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and…
— Wole Soyinka
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I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't…
— Andy Warhol
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I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
— Orson Welles
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...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?
— Nicole Krauss
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I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.
— Graham Greene
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I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.
— George Plimpton
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She’s got an indiscreet voice,†I remarked. “It’s full of-“ I hesitated. “Her voice is full of money,†he said suddenly. That was it. I’d…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I thought of a high school report I did on the Belgian artist Rene Magritte and a quote I once read from him, something about…
— Sloane Crosley
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The voice belonged to Mr. Pzyrbovich, an algebra teacher who was always called Mr. P, for obvious reasons. He has a heavy accent, which a…
— Dave Barry
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And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.
— Richard Yates
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Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen…
— Boris Pasternak
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If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big ‘however’-…
— Andy Andrews
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I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in…
— Silas House
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the…
— Abraham Verghese
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The thing I never understood about love is that it can't be quelled, like lust can. With love, if you follow its call, if you…
— Emily Maguire
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Fire will save the Clan...you never understood, did you? Not even when I gave you your apprentice name, Firepaw. And I doubted it myself, when…
— Erin Hunter
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That's how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers. That's…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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